Re: [PATCH] dont insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable.

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Nov 22 2006 - 16:40:38 EST


On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:36:18PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The DCACHE_UNHASHED games seem hacky.
>
> Would it be cleaner to define a new dentry.d_flags bit which can be used to
> indicate that this is a hashing-not-needed dentry, and to handle that over
> in dcache.c?

Much more invasive change, actually, and on fairly hot paths.
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